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Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies Volume 64. More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies Volume 64. More
Hong Kong: Noticias de Macau, 1960. Revised Edition. Paperback. First edition of this title published in 1951. Appears to be a special supplement to the publication Noticias de Macau. Contents printed in the two column newspaper style. As stated on the title page: "A Tribute to the memory..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Cara Wilson (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Previously published, in shorter form, as Business Republic of China Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Hong Kong the Super Paradox cuts into the cold reality of post-colonial Hong Kong, which demonstrates a paradoxical normalcy in its internal politics belying all pre-1997 prophecies of doom, and offers plausible reasons for the wide discrepancy between..... More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1984. More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Steve Turner (design). Reprint. Hardcover. Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Death of Mao opens in the summer of 1976, as Mao Zedong lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book analyzes the changes in property rights in contemporary China in light of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Man Hai Language Publication, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover (Outsized/Oblong). More
Beijing: Beijing Review Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Covers history, population, human rights, the Dalai Lama, religion, culture, autonomy, economy, people's livelihood, the Lhasa riots. More
Duke University Press, 1998. Softcover. China’s Avant-Garde Fiction brings together a group of exceptional writers (including Raise the Red Lantern author Su Tong) to the attention of an English-speaking audience. This book will be enjoyed by those interested in Chinese literature, culture, and society—particularly readers of contemporary fiction... More
Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding..... More
New York: W W Norton & Company, 2000. Paperback. An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with the rest of the world than we think. Whether in trade, religious belief, ideology, or..... More
Vacation Work, 2006. Softcover. More
Canberra: Autralian National University Press, 1981. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A book about the events leading up to the May Fourth Movement in China. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of..... More
Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. With contributions by Lucian W. Pye, Chalmers Johnson, Michel C. Oksenberg, Frederick C. Teiwes, Peter Schran, Victor H. Li, Donald J. Munro, Donald W. Klein, Ellis Joffe, Gabriel A. Almond. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A report to the Ford Foundation, part of the Praeger Library of Chinese Affairs. General editor: Donald W. Klein (Columbia University). More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. The summation of more than 2,000 years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of 300 years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2015. First Penguin Books Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by translator on title page. A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom The I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988. Illustrated Edition. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Trade Paperback. Based on newly declassified Chinese materials, this is the complete story, told for the first time, of the beginnings of the Chinese nuclear weapons program from 1955 to 1967. This illustrated edition contains 40 photographs..... More
W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. Hardcover. More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby..... More